Art of the Weimar Republic (Germany 1919-33) by Gabriel Tordjman, Winter 2011
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Art of the Weimar Republic (Germany 1919-33)by Gabriel Tordjman, Winter 2011
Warning: Some of these images contain graphic depictions of violence
Art of the Weimar Republic(Germany 1919-33)
Timeline• World War I (1914-1918)• German Revolution (1918-1919)• Weimar Republic (1919-1933)• Nazis elected to power (1933)• World War II (1939-45)
World War I (1914-1918)
Trench Warfare http://www.harris-academy.com/departments/history/Trenches/GillianR/Gillian%202.htm
World War I (1914-1918)
Battle of the Somme: Trench Warfare [1916]http://www.freeinfosociety.com/media.php?id=3655
World War I (1914-1918)David Swanson, “Abandoning Torture But What About War?”, LA Progressive, 10 Feb,. 2009.http://www.laprogressive.com/war-and-peace/abandoning-torture-but-what-about-war/
Metal on Metal, http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_O0ch3ABb3L4/TD6yDveCN5I/AAAAAAAAB1M/dTq32PIb21s/s1600/attachment.jpgOtto Dix, Stormtroopers Advancing
Under Gas (1924)
Otto Dix, The Trench (1920)
Metal on Metal, http://metalonmetalblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/otto-dix-horror-of-war.html
Kathe Kollwitz, Deutschlands Kinder Hungern! (1924)
Alexander B. Downes (dept. Pol. Sc. Duke) http://www.duke.edu/~downes/courses.htm
George Grosz, Dusk (1922)
Ineedartandcofee, http://ineedartandcoffee.blogspot.com/2010_10_01_archive.html
Otto Dix, The Skat players (aka Card playing war cripples) (1920).
Ordinary Finds, http://i12bent.tumblr.com/post/266751631/herr-otto-dix-goes-grotesque-the-skat-players
Weimar RepublicHyperinflation (1923)German children playing with worthless money
In 1922 a loaf of bread cost 163 marks. By September 1923 a loaf of bread cost 1,500,000 marks.
Madame Pickwick Art Blog http://madamepickwickartblog.com/aesthetics-of-nihilism-death-as-a-ready-made/
George Grosz, Eclipse of the Sun (1926)
Weimar RepublicHitler during the “Beer Hall Putsch” (1923). This was the Nazis first (failed) attempt at seizing power.
Weimar RepublicAfter years of political instability and economic problems, Germany, along with much of the world suffered through a devastating Great Depression beginning in 1929.
http://econ161.berkeley.edu/tceh/Slouch_Purge15.html
The Great Depression
Famous photograph by Dorothea Lange of Florence Owens and her children outside a migrant workers’ camp in California during the Great Depression.
Nazis Come to PowerIt was under these conditions, when huge numbers of people lost their jobs, that Hitler and the Nazi party came to power in Germany in 1933. Nazi electoral propaganda posters for the 1932 German election.
"Workers: The Brain and the Fist! Vote for the frontsoldier Hitler!" (source: The Rise of the Dictators: 1919-1939 by Peter Banyard. Gallery Books, New York City. 1986, p. 18.)
"Fight hunger and despair! Vote for Hitler!" (source: "An Exhibition of German Posters," May 8 through June 15, 1963, New School for Social Research, New York City.)
http://www2.facinghistory.org/Campus/weimar.nsf/ID/A50A6DC98BE7438885256CDE00581D88?OpenDocument